> [ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 10:21:41 (-0500), Jim.Hyslop wrote: ]
> > Subject: RE: Binary release announcements?
> >
> If you can't, or won't, build the software you use yourself then you
> need to find someone who can _and_ who you trust to do that fo
[ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 10:21:41 (-0500), Jim.Hyslop wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Binary release announcements?
>
> A perfect case in point is the recent thread about the Windows build being
> broken - again. I've been through this many times with various open source
>
[ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 09:32:00 (+), Andy Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
>
> > People who don't want, or can't, compile their own programs should be
> > looking to their software integration "vendor" for s
[ On Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 11:25:56 (-0500), Patton, Matthew E., CTR,
OSD-PA&E wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Binary release announcements?
>
> Like ANYBODY who looks at the CVS code can trust it! So it's not as bad as
> qmail and other hideous projects out there but the
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>That will only be true in the most trivial of cases. With something
>even slightly complex, such as CVS, successful operation depends a great
>deal on many of the steps that come after a proper compilation and
>linking of the or
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Andy Jones wrote:
>>People who don't want, or can't, compile their own programs should be
>>looking to their software integration "vendor" for such support.
>
>
>If I understand you correctly, you are saying that people who don't
feel comfortable comp
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I agree 100% with Jim Hyslop's POV.
> > There's also still the whole issue of trust.
> How did I know you were going to bring that up? :=)
Like ANYBODY who looks at the CVS code can trust it! So it's not as bad as
qmail and other hideous projects out there but the co
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:21, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
> So, if I'm not even going
> to look at the code, why should I have to compile it from source if there's
> a pre-built binary available?
FWIW me too. When a new release of CVS comes out, I'm very happy to
be able to grab a Windows binary, unzip
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jim.Hyslop wrote:
>
> A perfect case in point is the recent thread about the Windows build being
> broken - again. I've been through this many times with various open source
> projects, and trying to get the software to build just is not worth the
> hassle involved if there'
Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at 08:36:43 (+), Andy
> Jones wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
> >
> > For my own part, there are some programs I am comfortable compiling
> > and some I most certainly am not. It s
>People who don't want, or can't, compile their own programs should be
>looking to their software integration "vendor" for such support.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that people who don't feel comfortable
compiling programs should buy support?
So these people have no place in
[ On Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at 08:36:43 (+), Andy Jones wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
>
> For my own part, there are some programs I am comfortable compiling
> and some I most certainly am not. It so happens that CVS falls in the
> former category (
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>Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
>posted to the cvshome.org web site? I just received a request for Win32
Thanks for all the reponses. There was enough interest and enough
people who thought using the other li
>> Some folks prefer poking themselves in the eye with a dirty old stick
>> too, but that doesn't mean we should encourage their behaviour.
>
>Except in certain cases, of course -- there are some people that you
>don't *want* to see what's going on. ;-)
With the greatest of respect, of *course*
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Andre Schoorl wrote:
>Incidentally, is there a new release of cvs-1.12 pending? I've noticed
a few versions of the stable version recently, but no corresponding
development versions. I am running 1.12 for its native PAM support,
which I previously h
Greg A. Woods writes:
>
> Some folks prefer poking themselves in the eye with a dirty old stick
> too, but that doesn't mean we should encourage their behaviour.
Except in certain cases, of course -- there are some people that you
don't *want* to see what's going on. ;-)
-Larry Jones
See, it a
[ On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 20:36:00 (-0500), Derek Robert Price wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Binary release announcements?
>
> That hardly proves that I would mind providing courtesy announcements to
> info-cvs when binaries get posted if folks are interested. Some people
>
ven a month..
Gagneet
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Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:15:33 (-0500), Derek Robert
Price wrote: ]
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>>Subject: Binary release announcements?
>>
>>Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
>
[ On Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 11:15:33 (-0500), Derek Robert Price wrote: ]
> Subject: Binary release announcements?
>
> Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
> posted to the cvshome.org web site?
CVS is open _sour
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Hey all,
Is there general interest in having the binaries announced as they are
posted to the cvshome.org web site? I just received a request for Win32
announcements, but if I was going to do that then I'd probably announce
all binaries as they were
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